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• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  going to be here for CPW itself - ESP is flying me to California, to teach for Stanford's Splash. I'm super lucky, though, and got to send an e ... are nearly ready for you. While we all wait, a few words to help you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  dictated by the circumstances of one's birth. ????? You don't get to choose if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... adjust to life at an institution like MIT. I regret that I didn't get to go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries ... go to review sessions for 2.006 exams or Dance Troupe rehearsals and ... really needed to get started with before Friday and almost no time to do it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... that, of course, I didn't get to talk to every single performing group at

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  make a salad or some pan-fried vegetables to go with it. For the second ... goal, by the end of four years, is to be able to pull together a tasty ... ’t know about you, but I like to eat. I grew up in a family where food is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  ) I was REALLY excited to get this new room. The coffin never really ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind ... single.) First step to moving in: the room required a paint job. Getting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... else comes in for Orientation next weekend.) I went back to my room and ... else to do while walking around campus by myself. Now, I'm not exactly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  to get involved with some new activities and continue some old ones ... new school year, I saw V for Vendetta last night at the LSC (MIT's very ... Jamison (a Chemistry professor who studies new methods for organic synthesis

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  ignition taught me something new. For the Spinning Arts club, I went to ... was foreign to me, and I naturally feared getting burned. But after ... , and training for months, I learned to befriend the flame. Similarly, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And ... usually like to make something more complicated for potlucks, but I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by ... when I get back to campus it'll be back to IHTFP, but in some weird

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  vacation day. I'm always one to shoot for the underdog, the least privileged ... up via Bluetooth to my GPS. I had to get out of bed and look at the ... stymied by a recycle bin. I had to throw the e-brake and move the darned

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  therapeutic nanoparticles have a hard time penetrating the layers to get to the ... -generational bloggerfest. If you come back to this post in a week, you'll get to learn why ... Hello world! I have returned from the -- well, to be honest, I never

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  was turned off by academia, and wanted to explore those interests in a ... meets girl. Girl falls for boy. Boy and girl combine their knowledge of biology, architecture and computer programming to design fashionable

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... . 4. Write letters to friends - I love getting mail from friends, and I ... color pencils and drew for fun. 7. Learn how to iron my clothes - At

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... went to rehearsal for the final project in dance, played in a badminton ... , incidentally, lasted all of 1 whole day for us (no!)] went to cheerleading

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  engineering is the field for him. Chemical engineers get to draw on math and ... Franklin High 'regular guy' bound for MIT by Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all ... now that I’ve taken the class, I get to [annotation note="Turns out FPGA ... and waiting for Vivado to finish synthesis, we were finally done. So

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  to an apartment in New York City with two other first years for the ... complete-- but we get by as best as we can. This is what makes society and ... [/annotation]are harder to motivate for oneself when there is no clear rewarding outcome. It

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process ... through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019